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%SELF AWARENESS-2 780426
Self-awareness is inhibited by internal blockages to
communication between different aspects of our self. The
blockages may pertain to separate portions of our brain,
such as the left and right portions of the cortex, or to
less physically definable separate aspects of our psyche.
In extreme cases our body may involve two or more separate
personalities who communicate with each other minimally,
if at all. Such split personalities dramatize the
possibility of blockages to internal communication within
one of us. Such internal blockages probably occur in much
less dramatic ways in each of us. To the extent that they
do occur in us---we become incapable of full self-
awareness---we lose integrity.
Blockages to internal communication may be occasioned
by our internalizing excommunication as a means of dealing
with conflicts of various sorts: interpersonal,
perceptual, conceptual, value, methodological, political,
religious, spiritual, philosophical, labor, business,
educational, international, etc. The internalization of
unresolved conflicts in combination with the
internalization of the technique of excommunication
occasions in us the generation of blockages to internal
self-communication---and so blockage to our self-
awareness. Such blockages occasion in us the break-down
of personal integrity, and the onset of frustrations,
anxiety, fear, resentment, anger, and other emotions which
we cannot "properly" express, and so we become violent.
Many in our society have become violent!
To recover our self-awareness we need to return to
what is most uniquely identified with our self---personal
sensory data. This may be difficult for us because our
internalized collusions may filter/interpret even our raw
sensory data to the point that we can not be aware of
sensations in an unbiased way. We may have become so
preoccupied with formal representations of reality as to
have lost touch with our raw sensory data. Even so, the
direction for us to move is towards greater awareness of
our own unique sensations---rather than towards more
formal representations of the nature of reality. Sensory
orientations are threatening to all authoritarians
(religious, scientific, political, educational), for there
are no authoritatively true sensations. Sensory
orientations tend to undermine authoritarian systems of
all kinds, so authoritarian systems tend to try to repress
them.
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